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Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
Heavy rainfall across large parts of the north, south-west and the east coast of Australia
- Severe Tropical Cyclone Mitchell (21U) made landfall in Western Australia as a tropical low east of Shark Bay on 10 February, and continued to move inland, bringing widespread rain, showers and thunderstorms to large parts of the south-west.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 150 mm, with isolated heavier falls, were recorded across much of south-western Western Australia.
- Surface troughs, combining with tropical moisture, brought severe thunderstorms, heavy rainfall and isolated flash flooding to parts of Queensland, including the Wide Bay and Burnett, and Central Highlands and Coalfields districts.
- Weekly rainfall totals reached up to 200 to 300 mm in far northern parts of Western Australia, the central Northern Territory, and parts of Southeast Coast in Queensland.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 200 mm were recorded across much of northern Australia, as well as far northern New South Wales and north-eastern South Australia.
- A cold front crossing the Great Australian Bight, linked up with the remnants of Ex-TC Mitchell to bring a band of showers and isolated thunderstorms to south-eastern Australia, including snow to elevated regions in Tasmania.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded across western Tasmania, and eastern Victoria and New South Wales.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 310.2 mm at Mount Winifred in Western Australia. The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 190.0 mm at Surbiton Station in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 13 February.
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History
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